Compulsively Aimless

Looking back on my reading for 2023, if I find any themes for the year they would be time, memory, and nostalgia. A few of the quotes and observations I've written down from this year.     Like watches ticking on the wrists of dead soldiers. --Jean Cocteau   If you live long enough, the process of memory ruthless condenses your experiences consigning much to oblivion. --Robert Kaplan, Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age   The alleys at night intimate chambers of of just remembered dreams and childhood -- Robert Kaplan, Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age   Journey taken in youth inform the rest of our lives -- they are markers of of change in us as well as the rest of the world --WSJ, April ?, 2023   The lifetime that I've been lent in idleness I've spent      --fragment of a poem that I can't recall attribution.  I had become my ancestors --The Growing Seasons, Samuel Hynes ...

  I have several pages of fictional band names and songs. (A project that continues without direction or purpose.) Here's another installment. Awl Da Tyme Cherub Moolah Cake Bakers Band Name or Microbrew? Night Deposit Dying Cloud Saturday on Mars German Haircut Country Killing   Legal Bands   I saw these as actual band names earlier this year posted on a bulletin boards at the George Washington Law School. International Shoe Attractive Nuisance I've not seen them perform but if they're still around I have a couple of song titles for them: Frolic and Detour Writ of Replevin

                        1. Do you ever make a to-go cup of coffee for your drive to get coffee?   2. Have you written more odes than haikus to coffee?   3. Do you ever think about planning a vacation to Java?   4. Do you drink coffee while sitting on the toilet?   5. Have you named any of your children Mocha or Frappuccino?